Definition: Every person is born with the rights: life, liberty and property, and it's the government's job to make sure that everyone's rights are protected.
Examples: If you steal something, you're taking someone else's property. So, you get in trouble for taking that person's thing's and you can have a series of punishments happen to you. You can go to jail, pay a fine, have to do community service, anything can happen, because the government protects out individual rights
Provide National Defense:
Definition: Defending the nation from enemies is one of the government’s job
To have security countries have an army, navy, air force, coast guard.
Providing defense to protect national security is a major concern to each state
Maintaining order:
Deffinition:To keep things under control by: enforcing laws, settling arguments in court, and punishing people who do bad things.
The government controls and makes sure that there are no conflicts between people by placing laws on what individuals are permitted to do
Providing Public Services:
Deffinition: when the government does things that i person wouldn’t do/pay for all by themselves.
Examples: public transportation (the bus, commuter trains/subways), garbage pickup, air quallity inspection, sewers, etc.
Direct Economics Decisions:
Deffinition: nations provide people with economics opportunities or resources a government determines the way in which a country, state, county, township, city, or village is run. At every level, government makes laws that citizens must obey and creates policies about everything connected with the daily life of a community—whether that community is a nation, a state or the town where you live.
The Five Purposes of Government
Activity: go to this website for a fun
http://pbskids.org/democracy/govandme/index.htmlProtection Of Individual Rights:
Definition: Every person is born with the rights: life, liberty and property, and it's the government's job to make sure that everyone's rights are protected.
Examples: If you steal something, you're taking someone else's property. So, you get in trouble for taking that person's thing's and you can have a series of punishments happen to you. You can go to jail, pay a fine, have to do community service, anything can happen, because the government protects out individual rights
Provide National Defense:
Definition: Defending the nation from enemies is one of the government’s job
To have security countries have an army, navy, air force, coast guard.
Providing defense to protect national security is a major concern to each state
Maintaining order:
Deffinition:To keep things under control by: enforcing laws, settling arguments in court, and punishing people who do bad things.
The government controls and makes sure that there are no conflicts between people by placing laws on what individuals are permitted to do
Providing Public Services:
Deffinition: when the government does things that i person wouldn’t do/pay for all by themselves.
Examples: public transportation (the bus, commuter trains/subways), garbage pickup, air quallity inspection, sewers, etc.
Direct Economics Decisions:Deffinition: nations provide people with economics opportunities or resources a government determines the way in which a country, state, county, township, city, or village is run. At every level, government makes laws that citizens must obey and creates policies about everything connected with the daily life of a community—whether that community is a nation, a state or the town where you live.
Examples: Raising, lowering, or making new taxes.